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ALT Ruth-Ellen St. Onge with short brown hair and glasses pulls the Officium beatae Mariae virginis off a shelf in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.
ALT Three people in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections looking at a large book. A faded maroon half circle overlays the left side of the image.
ALT The Cedid Atlas Tercümesi, a distinctly Ottoman world atlas, lays open showcasing two colourfully engraved circular maps.
ALT A black and white photo of a person with shoulder length hair, an old newspaper clipping featuring a photo of Keith Patrick and a journal lay on top of a map. Text reads: Shot Down and Hiding Out with the Resistance: The Keith Patrick Archive with Saman Goudarzi and Bridget Whittle. 7 November 2024 12:00 noon (EST). Logos featured for McMaster University Library, McMaster University Alumni and Archives Alive.
ALT A black and white photo of a person with shoulder length hair, an old newspaper clipping featuring a photo of Keith Patrick and a journal lay on top of a map. Text reads: Shot Down and Hiding Out with the Resistance: The Keith Patrick Archive with Saman Goudarzi and Bridget Whittle. 7 November 2024 12:00 noon (EST). Logos featured for McMaster University Library, McMaster University Alumni and Archives Alive.
ALT A digital cover of McMaster University Library's 2023-2024 Impact Report can be seen. The cover features student assistants Dharav Shah and Esther Kok smiling, standing in front of a desk with a map laid out in front of them. Behind them is a large globe and more rows of desks. Text reads: 2023-2024 Impact Report. McMaster University Library. Logo featured for McMaster University Library.
ALT Librarian Katie Harding with shoulder-length curly brown hair wearing glasses and a black button-up shirt stands smiling in front of an orange wall.
ALT A collage of black and white, and colour photographs of Lucy Catherine Russell both on her own and with her family, as well as two pages of paper featuring her writing in black and blue ink.
ALT Promotional image for Archives Alive. Text reads: Pauline Johnson and Her Archive: A Conversation with Dr. Rick Monture, April 18 at 12 p.m. EDT (online). Black and white photo features portrait of Pauline Johnson with curly hair pulled back, wearing a long-sleeve, high-collar dress.
ALT McMaster Seed Library with packets of seeds in individual plastic containers that are labelled cucumber, kale, dill, mint, peas, lettuce, leeks and zucchini. A package of organic cucumber seeds is on display.
ALT Alix Shield with long blonde hair, wearing a grey sweater and blue jacket, stands smiling on a sandy beach in front of a body of water.
ALT Promotional graphic for Archives Alive public presentation. Text reads: Kwaskastahsowin (“put things to right”): Conciliation in the McClelland & Stewart and E. Pauline Johnson Collections, March 7, 12 p.m. EST. Presented by Dr. Alix Shield, Simon Fraser University.
ALT Promotional graphic for Archives Alive talk. Text reads: Rare Virtues & Most Ingenious Men: Benito Arias Montano, Christophe Plantin, and the Remarkable Emblem Book Humanae Salutis Monumenta; Feb. 9, 2024, 12 to 1 p.m., Online.
ALT Promotional event graphic. Text reads: Rare Virtues and Most Ingenious Men. Benito Arias Montano, Christophe Plantin, and the remarkable emblem book Humanae Salutis Monumenta. February 9, 2024. 12 to 1 p.m. Online. McMaster University Alumni logo can be seen.
ALT Promotional event graphic. Detail of engraving by J.B. Scotin in Office de la Semaine Sainte, published in honour of Queen Marie of France by la Veuve Mazières and Garnier in 1728 can be seen. Archives & Research Collections, C 1846. Text reads: "Wherein she plainly shews": Women of the Printing Trades in the Hand-Press Era. November 7, 2023. 12- 1 p.m. Online curators' talk.
ALT A selection of materials from the Basil H. Johnston Archive at McMaster University Library.
ALT Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, distinctive collections cataloguing librarian, in the William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections.